The firing of the director of the Justice Department’s US Trustee Program, Tara Twomey, casts a partisan shadow onto the bankruptcy watchdog—an otherwise inconspicuous role within the federal government.
Twomey, who was appointed head of the program in February 2023, was fired March 7, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to Bloomberg Law. Her departure came amid a blitz of terminations and layoffs across federal agencies, and specifically the Justice Department, since President Donald Trump took office in January.
Twomey’s firing indicates the role of the US Trustee is politically vulnerable at a time of larger economic fears, concerns ...